Literature on Hypogean Fishes

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Adams, R.,  G. Adams, A. Phillips & B. Burr. 2001. Biology of spring cavefish (Forbesichthys agassizi): Notes on demography, habitat use, reproduction, and early life history.  Abstracts of the 2001 ASIH meeting.

Agassiz, E. (ed.). 1885. Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence. Macmillan and Company, London. Vol. 1, 794 pp.

Agassiz, L. 1847 [1848]. [Plan for an investigation of the embryology, anatomy and effect of light on the blind-fish of the Mammoth Cave, Amblyopsis spelaeus]. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1:1-180.

Agassiz, L. 1851. Observations on the blind fish of the Mammoth cave. American Journal of Science 11:127-128.

Agassiz, L. 1859. An essay on classification. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, Roberts.

Allen, G. R. 1996. Oxyeleotris caeca, a new species of blind cave fish (Eleotridae) from Papua New Guinea. Revue Française de Aquariologie 23:43-46.
 

Aley, T. and C. Aley. 1997. Groundwater recharge area delineation, hydrobiological assessment, and vulnerability mapping of four Ozark cavefish (Amblyopsis rosae) populations in Missouri. A Report to the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Allen, G. R. & D. R. Robertson. 1994. Fishes of the tropical eastern Pacific. Bathurst: Crawford House Press.

Alvarez, J. 1946. Revisión del género Anoptichthys con descripción de una especie nueva (Pisc., Characidae). Anales de la Escuela Nacional de  Ciencias Biológicas de México 4:263-282.

Alvarez, J. 1947. Descripción de Anoptichthys hubbsi caracínido ciego de la cueva de los Sabinos, S.L.P. Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural 8:215-219.

Alvarez, S. 1992. Osorio-Tafall. Su personalidad, su aportacion a la historia. A Coruna, Spain: Edicios do Castro.

Andreani Armas, L. E. 1990. Estudio comparativo de dos poblaciones, una hipogea y otra epigea de Trichomycterus sp. (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae). Boletín de la Sociedad Venezolana de Espeleología (24):7-11.

Andreas Buckup, P. 1988. The genus Heptapterus (Teleostei, Pimelodidae) in southern Brazil and Uruguay with the description of a new species. Copeia 1988:641-653.

Angel, F. 1949. Contribution a l'etude du Typhleotris madagascariensis, poisson aveugle, cavernicole, du Sud-Ouest de Madagascar. Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 21:56-59.

Anonymous. 1842. [Mammoth Cave blind crayfish and fish]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1:175.

Anonymous. 1981. Freshwater fishes of Guangxi. Nanking: Fisheries Research Institute, Guangxi, Remnin Press (in Chinese).

Appel, T.A. 1988. Jeffries Wyman, philosophical anatomy, and the scientific reception of Darwin in America. Journal of the History of Biology 21:69-94.

Arnoult, J. 1959. Une nouvelle espèce de poisson aveugle de Madagascar: Typhleotris pauliani n. sp. Memoires du Instute des Sciences de Madagascar 13A:133-138.

Atz, J.W. 1986. C.M. Breder, Jr. 1897-1983. Copeia 1986:853-856.

Atz, J.W. & D.E. Rosen. 1959. Myron Gordon 1899-1959. Copeia 1959:352-354.
 

Avise, J. C. & R.K. Selander. 1972. Evolutionary genetics of cave-dwelling fishes of the genus Astyanax. Evolution 26:1-19.

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Bailey, R. M. & C. Gans. 1998. Two new synbranchid fishes, Monopterus roseni from Peninsular India and M. desilvai from Sri Lanka. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology of the University of Michigan (726): 1-18.

Baird, S.F. 1872. Living eyeless fish. Annals and Records of Science and Industry 1871:266.

Baird, S. F. & C. F. Girard. 1854. Descriptions of new species of fishes collected in Texas, New Mexico and Sonora, by Mr. John H. Clark, on the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, and in Texas by Capt. Stewart Van Vliet, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7: 24-29.

Banister, K. E. 1994. Glossogobius ankaranensis, a new species of blind cave goby from Madagascar (Pisces: Gobioidei: Gobiidae). Aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology 1: 25-28.

Banister, K. E., J. Bell & M. Crumpler. 1992. Omani blind cave fish. Aquarist and Pondkeeper

1992:38-40.

Banister, K. E. & M. K. Bunni. 1980. A new blind cyprinid fish from Iraq. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 38:151-158.

Banister, K.E. 1987. Two new species of Garra (Teleostei-Cyprinidae) from the Arabian peninsula. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 52:59-70.

Barr, T.C. 1966. Evolution of cave biology in the United States, 1822-1965. National Speleological Society Bulletin 28:15-21.

Bateson, W. 1922. Evolutionary faith and modern doubts. Science 55:1412.

Beddall, B.G. 1983. The isolated Spanish genius -myth or reality? Félix de Azara and the birds of Paraguay. Journal of the History of Biology 16:225-258.

Berti, R. 1990. Specific chemical recognition in Phreatichthys andruzzii (Pisces, Cyprinidae). Memoires de Biospeleologie 17:31.

Berti, R. & A. Ercolini. 1979. Aggressive behaviour in the anophthalmic phreatic fish Uegitglanis zammaranoi Gianferrari (Claridae siluriformes). Monitore di Zoolgia Italiana 13:197.

Berti, R. & A. Ercolini 1991. Caecogobius cryptophthalmus n. gen. n. sp. (Gobiidae Gobiinae), the first stygobic fish from Philippines. Tropical Zoology 4: 129-138.

Berti, R. &. G. Thinès. 1980. Influence of chemical signals on the topographic orientation of the cave fish Caecobarbus geertsi- Boulenger (Pisces, Cyprinidae). Experientia 36:1384-1385.

Berti, R. & L. Zorn. 2001. Locomotory responses of the cave cyprinid Phreatichthys andruzzii to chemical signals from conspecifics and related species: new findings. Environmental Biology of Fishes 63:00-00.

Besson, J. 1569 [1969]. L'art et science de trouver les eaux et fontaines cachees soubs terre: autrement que par les moyens vulgaires des agriculteurs et architectes. Orléans: E. Gibier,  83 pp. [facsimile reproduction by Editions Coral, Columbus, Ohio].

Bianchi. S. 1975. Preliminary observations on the epidermis of Uegitglanis zammaranoi Gianferrari (Claridae: Siluriformes). Monit. Zool. Ital 5: 91-101.

Bianchi, S., G. Delfino & A. Ercolini. 1978. Morphology and structure of the olfactory organ in Uegitglanis zammaranoi Gianferrari (Claridae Siluriformes), anophthalmic phreatic fish from Somalia. Monit. Zool. Ital. 10: 157-171.

Biswas, J. 1991. Annual modulation of diel motor activity rhythm of the dusk active loach Nemacheils evezardi (Day)A correlation between day length and circadian parameters. Proc. Indian Nat. Acad. Sci. B57:339-346.

Biswas, J., A. K. Pati, R. K. Pradhan, R. S. Kanoje. 1990. Comparative aspects of reproductive phase dependent adjustments in behavioural circadian rhythms of epigean and hypogean fish. Comp. Physiol. Ecol. 15: 134-139.

Blanc, M., J.-L. Gaudet, P. Banarescu & J.-C. Hureau. 1971. European inland fish: a multilingual catalogue. Fishing News (Books) Ltd., London. 149 pp.

Bocking, S. 1988. Alpheus Spring Packard and cave fauna in the evolution debate. Journal of the History of Biology 21:425-456.

Borodin, N. A. 1927. A new blind catfish from Brazil. American Museum Novitates (263): 1-5.

Boschung, H. T. 1992. Catalogue of freshwater and marine fishes of Alabama. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History (14): 1-266.

Boucquey, C., G. Thines & C. Van Der Borght. 1965. Étude comparative de la capacité photopathique et de l'activité chez le poisson cavernicole Anoptichthys antrobius, chez la forme epigee ancestrale Astyanax mexicanus, et chez les hybrides F1 (Astyanax x Anoptichthys) et F2. pp. 79-103, In; J. Mendioni (ed.) La distribution temporelle des activités animales et humaines. Masson et Cie, Paris.
 

Boulenger, G. 1893. Blind animals in caves. Nature 47:608.
 

Boulenger, G. 1921. Description d'un poisson aveugle decouvert par M.G. Geerts dans la grotte de Thysville (Bas-Congo). Rev. Zool. Afr. 9:252-253.

Bowler, P.J. 1984. Evolution. The history of an idea. University of California Press, Berkeley. 412 pp.

Breder, C. M. 1942. Descriptive ecology of La Cueva Chica, with especial reference to the blind fish, Anoptichthys. Zoologica 27: 7-15.

Breder, C.M. & E. B. Gresser. 1941. Correlations between structural eye defects and behavior in the Mexican blind characin. Zoologica 26: 123-131.
 

Bridges, W. 1954. Zoo expeditions. Curator Publications, New York. 191 pp.
 

Brittan, M. R. & J. E. Böhlke. 1965. A New Blind Characid Fish from Southeaster Brazil. Notulae Naturae (380):1-4.
 

Brown, A.V. 1991. Status survey of Amblyopsis rosae in Arkansas. A Final Report Submitted to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Little Rock, AR. 13pp.

Brown, R. W. 1956. Composition of scientific words. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 882 pp.

Bruton, M. N. 1995. Threatened fishes of the world: Clarias cavernicola Trewavas, 1936 (Clariidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 43:162.

Bruun, A.F. & E.W. Kaiser. 1944. Iranocypris typhlops, the first true cave fish from Asia. Danish Scient. Invest. Iran (4): 1-8.
 

Burgess, W.E. 1989. An atlas of freshwater and marine catfishes: a preliminary survey of the Siluriformes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City. 784 pp.

Burkhardt, F. & S. Smith. 1987. The correspondence of Charles Darwin, Vol. 3, 1844-1846. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Burkhardt, F. & S. Smith. 1989. The correspondence of Charles Darwin, Vol. 5, 1851-1855. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Burkhardt, F. & S. Smith. 1990. The correspondence of Charles Darwin, Vol. 6, 1856-1857. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 

Burr, B. M., G. L. Adams, J. Krejca, R. J. Paul, & M. L. Warren, Jr. 2001. Cavernicolous sculpins of the Cottus carolinae species group in Perry County, Missouri: distribution, external morphology, and conservation status review. Environmental Biology of Fishes 63:00-00.

Burr, B. M., and M. L. Warren, Jr. 1986. Distributional atlas of Kentucky fishes. Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission, Scientific and Technical Series No. 4, Frankfort, Kentucky. 398 pp.

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Cardona, L. & G. Guerao. 1994. Astroblepus riberae, una nueva especie de siluriforme cavernícola del Peru (Osteichthyes: Astroblepidae). Mém. Biospéléol. (21): 21-24.

Carranza, J. 1954. Descripcion del primer bagre anoftalmo y depigmentado encontrado en aguas mexicanas (Pisc., Ameiur.). Ciencia (Mexico). 14:129-136.

Carvalho, A. M & M. C. C. de Pinna 1986. Estudo de uma populacao hipogea de Trichomycterus (Ostariophysi, Siluroidei, Trichomycteridae) da Gruta de Olhos d'Agua, MG. Espeleo-Tema 15:53-64.

Chardon, M. 1966. Specialisation anatomique de l'appareil de Weber d'Astroblepus pholeter, Silure cavernicole microphtalme de la Republique de l'Equateur. Acad. Roy. Belg. Bull. Cl. Sci. 52: 846-8 63.

Chen, Y.-Y., X.-L. Chu, Z.-Y. Luo & J.-Y. Wu. 1988. A new blind cyprinid fish from Yunnan, China with a reference to the evolution of its characters. Acta Zool. Sin. 34: 64-70 (In Chinese).

Chen, Y.-R., J.-X. Yang & J.-H. Lan. 1997. One new species of blind cavefish from Guangxi with comments on its phylogenetic status (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae: Barbinae). Acta Zootaxon. Sin. 22: 219-223 (In Chinese).

Chen, Y.-R., J.-X. Yang, B. Sket & G. Aljancic. 1998. A new blind cave loach of Paracobitis with comments on its characters evolution. Zool. Res. 19: 59-63 (in Chinese).

Chen, Y.-R., J.-X. Yang & G.-C. Xu. 1992. A new blind loach of Triplophysa from Yunnan Stone Forest with comments on its phylogenetic reiationship [sic]. Zool. Res. 13: 17-23 (in Chinese).

Chen, Y.-R., J.-X. Yang & Z.-G. Zhu. 1994. A new fish of the genus Sinocyclocheilus from Yunnan with comments on its characteristic adaptation (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae). Acta Zoologica Sinica 19: 246-253 (In Chinese).

Chu, S.-L. & Y.-R. Chen. 1979. A new blind cobitid fish (Pisces, Cypriniformes) from subterranean waters in Yunnan, China. Acta Zool. Sin. 25: 285-287 (in Chinese).

Chu, X.-L. & Y.-R. Chen. 1982. A new genus and species of blind cyprinid fish from China with special reference to its relationships. Acta Zool. Sin. 28:383-388 (In Chinese).

Chumba-Segura, L. 1983. Brotulidae: Typhliasina pearsei. Fauna de Los Cenotes de Yucatan (4): 1-9.

Chumba-Segura, L. 1984. Synbranchidae: Ophisternon infernale. Fauna de Los Cenotes de Yucatán (6):1-9.

Coad, B.W. 1996. Threatened fishes of the world: Iranocypris typhlops Bruun & Kaiser, 1944 (Cyprinidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 46: 374.
 

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1920. Biographical memoir of Alpheus Spring Packard 1839-1905. Biogr. Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 9:181-236.

Coe, W. R. 1918. A century of zoology in America. pp. 391-438. In: E. S. Dana (ed.) A Century of Science in America, Yale University Press, New Haven.

Cohen, D. M. & C. R. Robins. 1970. A new ophidioid fish (genus Lucifuga) from a limestone sink, New Providence Island, Bahamas. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 83: 133-144.
 

Collette, B. B. 1962. Astroblepus pholeter, a new species of cave-dwelling catfish from eastern Ecuador. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 75: 311-314.

Colosi, G. n/d. Necrologie. Lodovico Di Caporiacco. Mon. Zool. Ital. 59(7-12).

Contreras-Balderas, S. & M de L. Lozano-Vilano. 1988. Problemas nomenclaturales de las formas mexicanas del género Astyanax (Pisces:Characidae). Zoología Informa (38):1-13.

Cooper, J. E., and D. P. Beiter. 1972. The southern cavefish, Typhlichthyes subterraneus (Pisces: Amblyopsidae), in the eastern Mississippian Plateau of Kentucky. Copeia 1972:879-881.

Cooper, J. E. & R. A. Kuehne. 1974. Speoplatyrhinus poulsoni, a new genus and species of subterranean fish from Alabama. Copeia 1974: 486-493.
 

Cooper, J.E. & F.C. Rohde. 1980. Chologaster cornuta Agassiz. p. 481, In: D.S. Lee et al., Atlas of North American Freshwater Fishes. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Museum of Natural History.

Cope, E.D. 1864. On a blind silurid from Pennsylvania. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1864:231-233.

Cope, E.D. 1896. The primary factors of organic evolution. Open Court, Chicago. 547 pp.

Culver, D.C. 1976. The evolution of aquatic cave communities. Amer. Nat. 110:955-957.

Culver, D.C. & D. W. Fong. 1986. Why all cave animals look alike. Stygicola 2:208-216.

Culver, D.C., T.C. Kane & D.W. Fong. 1995. Adaptation and natural selection in caves. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 223 pp.

Cuvier, G. 1819. Sur les poissons du sous-genre Hydrocyon, sur deux nouvelles espèces de Chalceus, sur trois nouvelles espèces du Serrasalmes, et sur l'Argentina glossodonta de Forskahl, qui est l'Albula gonorhynchus de Bloch. Mem. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 5: 351-379.
 

Cuvier, G. 1828 [1995]. Historical portrait of the progress of ichthyology : from its origins to our own time. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 366 pp.

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Dai, D.-Y. 1988. Un nouveau poisson cavernicole. Spelunca Mem. (16):88-89.

Darwin, C. 1859. On the origin of the species by means of natural selection. J. Murray, London. 502 pp.

Darwin, C. 1861. On the origin of the species by means of natural selection. J. Murray, London. 538 pp.

Davidson, R. 1840. An excursion to the Mammoth Cave, and the barrens of Kentucky. With some notices of the early settlement of the state. A. T. Skillman & Son, Lexington. 148 pp.
 

Day, F. 1872. Monograph of Indian Cyprinidae, Part IV. J. Asiatic Soc. 41:171-198.

DeKay, J. E. 1842. Zoology of New York or the New-York Fauna, Part IV, Fishes. W. & A. White & J. Visscher, Albany. 566 pp.

De Filippi, F. 1853. Nouvelles espèces de poissons. Rev. Mag. Zool. (Ser. 2) v. 5: 164-171.

Dexter, R.W. 1965. The "Salem secession" of Agassiz zoologists. Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. 101:27-39.

de Pinna, M. C. C. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships of neotropical Siluriformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi): historical overview and synthesis of hypotheses. pp. 279-330. In: L. R. Malabarba, R. E. Reis, R. P. Vari, Z. M. Lucena, & C.A.S. Lucena (ed.) Phylogeny and classification of Neotropical fishes. Edipucrs, Porto Alegre.
 

Dexter, R.W. 1965. The "Salem secession" of Agassiz zoologists. Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. 101:27-39.

Díaz Perez, P. A. 1988. Lucifuga teresinarum sp. n., nueva especie cubana de peces troglobios (Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae). Rev. Biol. (Habana) 2: 37-43.

Di Caporiacco, L. 1926. Un nuovo genere di Ciprinide somalo delle acque di pozzo (One new cyprinid genus from a well in Somalia). Monit. Zool. Ital. 37:23-25.

Di Capporiacco, L. 1927. Pesci recolti in Somalia nel 1924, della spedizione Stefanini e Puccini. Monit. Zool. Ital. 38: 84-89.

Durand, J. 1968. Etude des poissons récoltés dans la grotte de Umayalanta (Bolivie), Trichomycterus chaberti sp. n. Ann. Spéléol. 23: 343-353.

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Eapen, K.C. 1963. A new species of Monoptereus from South India. Bull. Dept. Mar. Biol. Ocean. Univ. Kerala 1: 129-132.

Eigenmann, C.H. 1890. The Point Loma blind fish and its relatives. Zoe 1:65-96.

Eigenmann, C. H. 1897. The Amblyopsidae and eyes of blind fishes. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 1897: 230-231.

Eigenmann, C. H. 1898. On the Amblyopsidae. Science 7: 227.

Eigenmann, C. H. 1899. A case of convergence. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 1899: 247-251.
 

Eigenmann, C.H. 1903. In search of blind fishes in Cuba. World Today 5:1131-1136.

Eigenmann, C. H. 1905. Divergence and convergence in fishes. Biol. Bull. Woods Hole 8: 59-66.
 

Eigenmann, C.H. 1909. Cave vertebrates of America. A study in degenerative evolution. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C. 241 pp.

Eigenmann, C.H. 1912. The freshwater fishes of British Guiana, including a study of the ecological grouping of species, and the relation of the fauna of the plateau to that of the lowlands. Mem. Carnegie Mus. 5:1-103.

Eigenmann, C. H. 1919. Trogloglanis pattersoni a new blind fish from San Antonio, Texas. Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 58: 397-400.

Etnier, D. A., and W. C. Starnes. 1993. The Fishes of Tennessee. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee. xiv + 681 pp.

Erckens, W. & F. Weber. 1976. Rudiments of an ability for time measuremens in cavernicole fish Anoptichthys jordani Hubbs & Innes (Pisces: Characidae). Experientia 32: 1297-1299.

Ercolini, A.& R. Berti. 1975. Light sensitivity experiments and morphology studies of the blind phreatic fish Phreatichthys andruzzii Vinciguerra from Somalia. Monit. Zool. Ital. 6:29-43.

Ercolini, A. & R. Berti. 1977. Morphology and response to light of Uegitglanis zammaranoi Gianferrari, anophthalmic phreatic fish from Somalia. Monit. Zool. Ital. 9: 183-199.

Ercolini, A.& R. Berti. 1978. Morphology and response to light of Barbopsis devecchii di Caporiacco (Cyprinidae), microphthalmic phreatic fish from Somalia. Monit. Zool. Ital. 10: 299-314.

Ercolini, A., R. Berti, L. Chelazzi, & G. Messana. 1982. Researches on the phreatobic fishes of Somalia: achievements and prospects. Monit. Zool. Ital. 17:219-241.

Ercolini, A., R. Berti, L. Chelazzi, & G. Messana. 1987. Oxygen consumption in hypogean and epigean cyprinids (Pisces). Monit. Zool. Ital. 22(Suppl.):23-30.

Espinasa, L. P. Rivas-Manzano & H. Espinosa Pérez. 2001. A new blind cave fish population of genus Astyanax: geography, morphology and behavior. Environmental Biology of Fishes 63:00-00.
 

Espinasa, L. & W.R. Jeffery. 2003. A troglomorphic sculpin (Pisces: Cottidae) population: geography, morphology and conservation status. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 65(2):93-100.

Etnier, D. A. & W. C. Starnes. 1993. The fishes of Tennessee. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. 681 pp.

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Fernández, L. and M.E. Bichuette, 2002. A new cave dwelling species of Ituglanis from the São Domingos karst, central Brazil (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters 13(3):273-278.

Figg, D. E. 1991. Missouri Department of Conservation Annual Nongame and Endangered Species Report July 1990 - June 1991. ii + 35 pp.

Figg, D. E., and C. M. Bessken. 1995[?]. Missouri Department of Conservation wildlife diversity report: July 1994 - June 1995. v + 104 pp. [perhaps date is 1996]

Flint, J. 1822. Letters from America, containing observations on the climate and agriculture of the western states, the manners of the people, the prospects of emigrants, &c., &c. [sic] W. & C. Tait, Edinburgh. 330 pp.
 

Fowler, H.W. & H. Steinitz. 1956. Fishes from Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Oman. Bull. Res. Counc. Israel. 5B:260-292.

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Galán, C. 1982. Fauna troglobia de Venezuela: sinopsis, biología, ambiente, distribución y evolución. Bol. Soc. Venez. Speleol. (29): 20-38.

Gerard, P. 1936. Sur l'existence des vestiges oculaires chez Caecobarbus geertsi. Mus. Roy. Hist. Nat. Melages P. Pelseneer 1936:549-552.

Géry, J. 1977. Characoids of the world. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City. 672 pp.

Gianferrari, L. 1923. Uegitglanis zammaranoi un nuovo siluride cieco africano (Uegitglanis zammaranoi, a new African cave silurid). Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Milan. 62:1-3.

Gianferrari, L. 1930. Un nuovo ciprinide Somalo (Barbopsis Stefaninii Gianf.). Atti. Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. (Milano) 69:106-11.

Gianferrari, L. 1934. I pesci cavernicoli ciechi africani. Ross. Fauna 2:33-36.

Gifford, G.E. 1967. An American in Paris, 1841-1842: four letters from Jeffries Wyman. J. Hist. Med. Allied Sci. 22:274-285.

Girard, C.F. 1859. Ichthyological notes. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859:63-64.

Girard, C. F. 1888. Les poissons souterrains du nouveau monde. Le Naturaliste 10:222.

Goeldi, E. A. 1905. Nova zoologica aus der Amazonas-Region. Neue Wirbeltiere. C. R. 6. Congr. Internat. Zool. Berne 1905: 542-549.

Gotch, A. F. 1995. Latin names explained. A guide to the scientific classification of reptiles, birds & Mammals. Facts on File, New York. 714 pp.

Gordon, M. S. & G. E. Rosen. 1962. A cavernicolous form of the poeciliid fish Poecilia sphenops from Tabasco, Mexico. Copeia 1962: 360-368.

Graening, G.O. & A.V. Brown. 1999. Cavefish population status and environmental quality in cave Springs Cave, Arkansas.  A Final Report Submitted to the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission.  Arkansas Water Resources Center, Publication No. 276, 37 pp.

Green, S. & A. Romero. 1997. Responses to light in two blind cave fishes (Amblyopsis spelaea and Typhlichthys subterraneus) (Pisces:Amblyopsidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 50:167-174.

Greenfield, D. W., T. A. Greenfield & R. L. Woods. 1982. A new subspecies of cave-dwelling pimelodid catfish, Rhamdia laticauda typhla from Belize, Central America. Brenesia (19/20): 563-576.

Greenwood, P. H. 1976. A new and eyeless cobitid fish (Pisces, Cypriniformes) from the Zagros Mountains, Iran. J. Zool. 180: 129-137.

Gresser, E. B. & C.M. Breder. 1940. The histology of the eye of the cave characin, Anoptichthys jordani. Zoologica 25:113-116.

Günther, A.C. L. G.1880. An introduction to the study of fishes. A. and C. Black, Edinburgh. 720 pp.

Gurnee, R. 1992. A brief history of cave studies in the United States before 1887 (16th to the 19th Century). J. Spelean Hist. 26:11-20.

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Hubbs, C. L. 1936. XVII. Fishes of the Yucatan Peninsula. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. (457): 157-287.

Hubbs, C. L. 1938. Fishes from the caves of Yucatan. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. (491): 261-295.

Hubbs, C.L. 1961. Isolating mechanisms in the speciation of fishes, pp. 5-23. In: Vertebrate Speciation: A symposium. W. F. Blair (ed.). University of Texas Press, Austin.
 

Hubbs, C.L. 1964. History of ichthyology in the United States after 1850. Copeia 1964:42-60.

Hubbs, C.L. & W. T. Innes. 1936. The first known blind fish of the family Characidae: a new genus from Mexico. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. (342):1-7.

Hubbs, C. L. & R. M. Bailey. 1947. Blind catfishes from artesian waters of Texas. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (499):1-15.

Humboldt, A von 1805. Mémoire sur une nouvelle espèce de pimelode, jetée par les volcans du Royaume de Quito. In: Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland, Deuxième partie. Observations de Zoologie et d'Anatomie comparée. Paris. 1:21-25.

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